Curtis Dahlgren
The week after: they still don't get it
By Curtis Dahlgren
"Congratulations. Tomas de Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition's inquisitor-general, would be proud. We live in a country where the winning coalition is made up of crony capitalists and religious zealouts - unethics in business meets the Dark Ages." — columnist for the St. Petersburg Times
METHINKETH SHE DOTH PROTESTETH OVERMUCH, MABEL. I knew it would be easier to write this column if I spent some time reading post-election reactions by the Vast Left-wing Conspiracy's "true believers." They are certainly not going to let the facts get in the way of "explaining" the election results.
The editorial page editor of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says that the election outcome was "counter-intuitive" — which is journalistic group-speak for "un-bleeping-believable!" He said last Saturday that the Bush campaign was "just one big Willie Horton ad, preying on fears and an unfortunately abundant tendency in this country to mistake righteous indignation for values."
I hate to be the one to have to break the news to him, but my trusty '38 Funk & Wagnalls would probably agree that "righteous indignation" is indeed a "value," and I've been hearing Academia saying that "We must not make value judgments," period (for the past half century), so it's NO WONDER that at least 51 percent of the voters are righteously indignant.
They're indignant about prospective righteous judges being held hostage by filibusters rather than by 50 percent of the Senate. They're indignant about folks in Hollywood looking down their noses across the Great Plains and saying, "These are farmers, the Common Clay of the Old West. You know — MORONS" [Gene Wilder in "Blazing Saddles"]! They're still indignant about lefty politicians sucking the brains out of unborn babies and young White House interns.
TALK ABOUT A PARADOX! Since 1973, prospective Democrat mothers have aborted most of the 45 million babies aborted in those 30 years. DO THE MATH; RUN THE NUMBERS: over 15 million of those babies would have been over 18 and old enough to vote in 2004; assuming that most of them would have voted Democrat if raised by those liberal mothers had they been carried to term, John Kerry could have won the election by at least 10 million popular votes instead of losing by 3 million!
NO, THEY STILL DON'T GET IT: those so-called hypocritical "Christian" mothers have been carrying their babies to term for the last 30 years and perhaps about one-third of them just voted for George W. Bush (I'm begining to see why Pharaoh Ramses II decided to exercise some involuntary "family planning" — he was getting into a lose-lose situation like liberals today).
Add to our 18-to-31 year olds who escaped abortion the gains by Bush among Jews, Hispanics, and even Blacks, when one does the math, it's amazing the margin of victory wasn't an even bigger landslide!
The young St. Pete columnist says that the election of 2004 was about the "most dangerous and damaging elements in American society winning big" and she fears "for the next four years — and beyond."
The publisher of Harper's magazine, John R. MacArthur, blasts both President Bush AND Sen. John Kerry for advertising "their subservience to Jesus Christ and the Christian god, without the least concern about whether it might offend me."
I could give you a dozen quotes right at my fingertips from our Founding Fathers — who obviously were "without the least concern" whether their words were offensive to ANYONE regarding their allegiance to our Judeo-Christian "g-d"!
WHO IS CALLING WHOM BIASED AND INSENSITIVE AND DANGEROUS? TELL IT TO THOMAS JEFFERSON AND GEORGE WASHINGTON! They had a lot more "fear" of "damage" to religion from the Government than fear of "damage" to the Government from religion, or the involvement of religious people.
P.S. Religious people still have the right to vote, too, you know (SO FAR)! As for fears, I still wonder about the Weapons of Mass Destruction "missing" from Iraq. During the 6 months wasted on diplomatic negotiating, they could have been repossessed by the suppliers of the raw materials. Think about that, Michael Moore and "Friends"!
[Whew! The Lincoln bedroom had a close call last week.]
© Curtis Dahlgren
"Congratulations. Tomas de Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition's inquisitor-general, would be proud. We live in a country where the winning coalition is made up of crony capitalists and religious zealouts - unethics in business meets the Dark Ages." — columnist for the St. Petersburg Times
METHINKETH SHE DOTH PROTESTETH OVERMUCH, MABEL. I knew it would be easier to write this column if I spent some time reading post-election reactions by the Vast Left-wing Conspiracy's "true believers." They are certainly not going to let the facts get in the way of "explaining" the election results.
The editorial page editor of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says that the election outcome was "counter-intuitive" — which is journalistic group-speak for "un-bleeping-believable!" He said last Saturday that the Bush campaign was "just one big Willie Horton ad, preying on fears and an unfortunately abundant tendency in this country to mistake righteous indignation for values."
I hate to be the one to have to break the news to him, but my trusty '38 Funk & Wagnalls would probably agree that "righteous indignation" is indeed a "value," and I've been hearing Academia saying that "We must not make value judgments," period (for the past half century), so it's NO WONDER that at least 51 percent of the voters are righteously indignant.
They're indignant about prospective righteous judges being held hostage by filibusters rather than by 50 percent of the Senate. They're indignant about folks in Hollywood looking down their noses across the Great Plains and saying, "These are farmers, the Common Clay of the Old West. You know — MORONS" [Gene Wilder in "Blazing Saddles"]! They're still indignant about lefty politicians sucking the brains out of unborn babies and young White House interns.
TALK ABOUT A PARADOX! Since 1973, prospective Democrat mothers have aborted most of the 45 million babies aborted in those 30 years. DO THE MATH; RUN THE NUMBERS: over 15 million of those babies would have been over 18 and old enough to vote in 2004; assuming that most of them would have voted Democrat if raised by those liberal mothers had they been carried to term, John Kerry could have won the election by at least 10 million popular votes instead of losing by 3 million!
NO, THEY STILL DON'T GET IT: those so-called hypocritical "Christian" mothers have been carrying their babies to term for the last 30 years and perhaps about one-third of them just voted for George W. Bush (I'm begining to see why Pharaoh Ramses II decided to exercise some involuntary "family planning" — he was getting into a lose-lose situation like liberals today).
Add to our 18-to-31 year olds who escaped abortion the gains by Bush among Jews, Hispanics, and even Blacks, when one does the math, it's amazing the margin of victory wasn't an even bigger landslide!
The young St. Pete columnist says that the election of 2004 was about the "most dangerous and damaging elements in American society winning big" and she fears "for the next four years — and beyond."
The publisher of Harper's magazine, John R. MacArthur, blasts both President Bush AND Sen. John Kerry for advertising "their subservience to Jesus Christ and the Christian god, without the least concern about whether it might offend me."
I could give you a dozen quotes right at my fingertips from our Founding Fathers — who obviously were "without the least concern" whether their words were offensive to ANYONE regarding their allegiance to our Judeo-Christian "g-d"!
WHO IS CALLING WHOM BIASED AND INSENSITIVE AND DANGEROUS? TELL IT TO THOMAS JEFFERSON AND GEORGE WASHINGTON! They had a lot more "fear" of "damage" to religion from the Government than fear of "damage" to the Government from religion, or the involvement of religious people.
P.S. Religious people still have the right to vote, too, you know (SO FAR)! As for fears, I still wonder about the Weapons of Mass Destruction "missing" from Iraq. During the 6 months wasted on diplomatic negotiating, they could have been repossessed by the suppliers of the raw materials. Think about that, Michael Moore and "Friends"!
[Whew! The Lincoln bedroom had a close call last week.]
© Curtis Dahlgren
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